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The retailer released a time-lapse video, above, showing customers shopping last night in a "free-for-all" at stores in Homosassa, Fla., New Smryna, Fla., and Lake City, S.C. between 6pm-Midnight, EST, on Thanksgiving Day. According to reports, across the US some striking workers refused to go on duty on Thanksgiving evening as the company released guidelines for how to avoid any ugliness and keep the peace. Walmart.com president and CEO Joel Anderson alsotells Wired he welcomes "showrooming" this Black Friday — customers taking out their smartphones to compare prices.
Overseas, meanwhile, the company's not concerned about retail crush but the renewed specter of bribery allegations, which slammed its Mexico business in April — this time Walmart's India joint venture with Bharti, which has just suspended its CFO and others over bribery allegations.
----working overtime to stick it to the strikers. sounds familar
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